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Letters (Nov. 14, 2018)

I’m an old man with Medicare Part D drug insurance. I shop at a local chain food market pharmacy. One of my prescriptions results in an $80.03 co-pay. They sell that drug for $225.69 cash. I found another chain store that sells it for $21.69 cash. I later found a website that allows me to print coupons so that the pharmacy I’ve been shopping at will sell it for $15.72 cash. Unbelievable is the only printable word that comes to mind.

A Slice of Life from 1911

Here on the Macdonald ranch mid-autumn is a time to pick apples. In my youth, keeper varieties were stored in rectangular wooden bins on the kitchen porch. Rhode Island greenings were peeled and cooked into…

Making Money Writing a Century Ago

As an historian nearing the end of writing my first draft of a history of Mendocino County from 1852-2002 I can’t help but being intrigued by some of the people I’ve researched — like Aurelius…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018

Wet TG;
Horrific Crash;
Camp Fire;
BOS Silence;
Unhealthy Air;
Marbut Justification;
Vacancy Rate;
CEO Report;
Meadows Interview;
Ed Notes;
Yesterday's Catch;
Anyone Can;
Anti-Semitism;
Journalists;
Aurora Forecast;
Peppernut Balls;
Confidence Man;
Lights Festival;
Laurel Canyon;
New Fear;
Riggs Wigs-out;
Hortense Hordingall;
Buddhist Economics;
Bees Art

Off the Record (Nov. 14, 2018)

THE PRECIOUS little college town of Arcata has just voted to pull down the statue of President McKinley, which has rested on one end of the town's plaza almost since McKinley's assassination at the turn of the century.

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